Acknowledgements

Part I Need for Speed
1. Speed Matters
2. Your Speedometer
3. Speed Laws
4. Speed Traps
5. Organizational Benefits from Leadership Speed

Part II Tactics to Increase Leadership Speed
6. Speeding Up Your Day

7. Accelerate Meetings

8. Modeling Speed

Part III The Cross-Training Approach to Increasing Speed

9. Companion Behaviors for Leadership Speed

10. Innovating

11. Exhibiting Strategic Perspective

12. Displaying Courage

13. Setting Stretch Goals

14. Communicating Powerfully

15. Bringing External Focus

16. Taking Initiative

17. Possessing Knowledge and Expertise

Conclusion: Speed and the Balanced Life

Appendix: Research Methodology

Notes

Index

About the Author

John H. Zenger, D.B.A., is CEO of Zenger Folkman, a firm that helps organizations and individuals improve leadership effectiveness that, in turn, drives business results. These results include increasing employee engagement, retention, productivity, and bottom-line profitability. He is a member of the HRD Hall of Fame and has authored or coauthored eight books and 50 articles on leadership, productivity, and teams.

Joseph R. Folkman, Ph.D., is president of Zenger Folkman. He is an authoritative voice on the subject of creating and using employee surveys to create organizational change and 360- degree feedback assessment for individual development. Folkman is the author of three books: Turning Feedback into Change, Making Feedback Work, and Employee Surveys That Make a Difference.

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